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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The hard part is figuring out what your preference is, or with siblings, what's best for the family as a whole and how to leverage sibling preference.[/quote]

Sibling preference does not apply to application high schools. Take your bad advice back to the PK3 thread.[/quote]
It’s not bad advice. Someone might prefer Latin over Walls for their DC1 because Latin has sibling preference and therefore it will open a high school pathway for younger siblings as well, whereas if DC1 goes to Walls, which does not have sibling preference, the younger siblings will have no pathway.[/quote]

This. It's not bad advice at all.

If you have a rising 5th grader and a rising 9th grader, if the 5th grader gets Latin that could pull in the 9th grader. Or imagine you have an 8th grader at Latin who wants to go to Banneker instead, but that means that your 4th grader would lose their sibling status. Different kids, different needs, different academic profiles, commute, school year calendars-- there's a lot to consider. [/quote]

Yes, this type of situation is real and happens much more often than PP thinks. I will say, the myschooldc people are really helpful and can help you figure out how best to play the lottery if you are in this situation. They did exactly that for me and told me that do it for a lot of people.[/quote]

It does not happen "often." That would indicate that this is a common problem for parents in the DC school lottery system. It's not. It's a super bespoke issue for a tiny minority of people.

But agree on using the myschool.com resources. They will mostly just tell you the same thing: rank schools in order of genuine preference. But they can explain stuff like when sibling preference applies or doesn't, the difference between "sibling attending" versus "sibling admitted" which can come into play, etc. [/quote]

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